by Duncan | Oct 27, 2021 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior
Coleen Ellis—an expert on pet loss and dealing with the kind of grief that results from losing an animal companion—recalls how the loss 18 years ago of her beloved dog, Mico, coupled with then working in the human funeral profession, inspired her to start the first...
by Duncan | Apr 8, 2015 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, General
Helen Macdonald—author of “H is for Hawk,” a wildly-acclaimed, multifaceted memoir that recounts Macdonald’s struggle with the debilitating grief spawned by her father’s sudden death, and her singular solution to that struggle: training a goshawk, a large and...
by Duncan | Jan 14, 2015 | Authors, Cats, Dogs, Health & Behavior, Horses
John W. James— founder of the Grief Recovery Institute and co-author of newly-published “The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss—recalls the personal circumstances that led him into this field more than 35 years ago. Noting he wrote his first book dealing with grief...
by Duncan | Oct 26, 2011 | Authors
Jon Katz–New York Times bestselling author of 20 books (seven novels and 13 nonfiction books), most recently “Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die” – discusses the genesis of the new book, in which Katz provides a largely personal and...